What is your personal head canon?

[Oddish]

Communique? I'd send a FLEET.

I like your version better as well...
That or my version where the Defiant warps in and drops a reduced yield* photon torpedo on the facility where the prison memories are implanted, removing it from the landscape.

Alas, Prime Directive.

*A full powered torpedo would level a large city. This is justice, not genocide.

*~*~*~*

With Dr. Timcin forced to kill himself at age 60, the people of his world were never able to produce another scientist of his caliber, despite their best efforts. Their sun, which he would have been able to save, expired a few years later. Maybe some of them evacuated safely, but if they did, the only uninhabited M-class planet available was decidedly inhospitable**. But one way or the other, they paid a severe price for their actions.

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And on a less grim note: The Dominion still had the Weyoun template in their database. So Weyoun 9 is currently somewhere out there in the Gamma Quadrant, making a nuisance of himself.


**Think "Hoth", boys and girls. Hope everyone brought their long underwear.

 

[JesterFace]

I look at STNG as trial of humanity, just like it's described by Q. Why is it a trial? I don't know. What would happen if humanity lost the trial? I don't know that either but at least the trial thing can make us look at ourselves from another perspective.

Also, I can pick the episodes I want to watch.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I like your version better as well...
That or my version where the Defiant warps in and drops a reduced yield* photon torpedo on the facility where the prison memories are implanted, removing it from the landscape.

Alas, Prime Directive.

I got that covered as well:

(In the Argrathi president's office.)

President: Get the police commander in here immediately. This has gone far enough.

(later)

President: General, I've had doubts about your so-called "system" from day one. I always suspected it was barbaric, but it did give us the results you promised.

General: So why am I here?

President: Because your system almost got us ANNIHILATED, that's why! Or are you so blindly ignorant that you don't know what just happened to us? A Starfleet convoy almost destroyed Argratha because of you!

General: They wouldn't dare.

President: Oh yes, they would. At least we were meant to think so. We put an innocent man...

General (interrupting): How dare you! That trial was fair!

President: In your own headspace it was. But your system doesn't allow for fairness, does it? No rights? No appeals? No early release?

(Two guards enter the room.)

President: The Federation has a saying: You reap what you sow. Well so shall you. I'm ordering your system to be dismantled immediately....after it is finished with you.

(The guards drag the General away.)

 

[Oddish]

As long as we're talking about Weyouns, Weyoun 5's (supposedly) fatal transporter accident was actually self-arranged. Having secretly grown disenchanted with the Dominion, he faked his own death and fled through a random unstable wormhole, winding up in the Delta Quadrant. Once there, he changed his name, had some cosmetic surgery, grew a really cool mustache, and started a new life as a blood sport fight coordinator.

I mean, it explains a lot, doesn't it?

 

[publiusr]

-The Changelings are as old as the ancient humanoids that are the progenitors of humanoid life in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Or the opposite…maybe they are shoggoths…and shed the negativity named…Armus?

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Kelvin timeline is ultimately the happy ending one. One of the unmade Into Oblivion stories was to have Shatner and Nimoy as old versions of Kelvinverse Kirk and Spock. I'd have loved the movie to end with them overseeing the successful evacuation of Romulus in 2387.

 

[dswynne1]

My head canon?

What we are seeing now on Paramount+ is NOT the original timeline. The timeline first changed when Kirk and crew first traveled through time after contracting a virus (TOS, "The Naked Time").

Contrary to popular belief, the ORIGINAL configuration of the USS Enterprise went through a "Ship of Theseus", where old parts were replaced with new parts for the initial refit, while the old parts were reassembled as a museum piece.

Later, the ORIGINAL Enterprise was stolen by Kirk and crew from the museum, while the Enterprise-A is being repaired from the Wrath of Khan incident, thanks to Kirk already knowing the command codes of his old ship. Later, after a tough battle with the Klingon Kurge, it is sacrificed to save everyone, including the planet.

Saavik did NOT do the deed with a young Spock. In stead, she is his actual daughter by way of the Romulan commander, while Kirk, in a disguise, stole a cloaking device (TOS, "The Enterprise Incident").

David Marcus didn't die, though he was mortally wounded when stabbed by one of Kurge's henchmen on Planet Genesis, which, thanks to techno-babble, was stabilized. (TSFS).

David and Saavik get married, with Saavik wearing the pants in the relationship.

More to come later.

 

[Greg Cox]

Star Trek's transporter technology is based on the pioneering work of David Hedison in the original 1958 version of THE FLY.

As a kid, I was utterly convinced of this.

 

[Tallguy]

Saavik is half-Romulan.

That's not head canon. That's just canon!

Q was behind what happened in Time Squared, as originally intended by the writer.

Similarly for me it was the events of The Naked Time that lead to Tomorrow is Yesterday. I have no idea what to do with that ending.

In stead, she is his actual daughter by way of the Romulan commander, while Kirk, in a disguise, stole a cloaking device (TOS, "The Enterprise Incident").

So she's around 13 years old?

My head canon is that the Constitution class was the first vessel with a saucer and the first to use a combined living area / engineering section. Until later developments (after Kirk's Fiver Year Mission) it was the largest vessel in Federation space.

Oh, and (this is possibly contradicted by on screen evidence in The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before - do we see the dedication plaque in the pilots?) the Enterprise and 12 of her sisters were selected to be part of the Starship Class, an upgraded class with extended exploration and defense capabilities. The Enterprise was not originally selected because she was attempting to explore outside of the galactic rim, but the failure of that mission left her available.

Zephram Cochrane was the discoverer of the space warp. For Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, the whole founding group. That's why there are planets, cities, and universities named after him. So THERE, First Contact.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Everything but comic books. Yes, even "Mission to Horatius." And I distinctly recall somebody (maybe John Ford himself) harmonizing The Final Reflection vocabulary and orthography with canonical Klingon vocabulary and orthography.

Star Trek's transporter technology is based on the pioneering work of David Hedison in the original 1958 version of THE FLY.

As a kid, I was utterly convinced of this.

When I'm in Seattle, I usually visit the Pacific Science Center. And when I pass the lab-coated animatronic "barker bug" at the entrance to their insect zoo, I invariably say, "Look! It's David Hedison!" (This in spite of the fact that I've never actually seen either version of The Fly, nor read the original short story. And you still don't talk about Fight Club.)

 

[Turtletrekker]

My head canon connects the final appearance of the Klingons on Enterprise to their first appearance on Discovery.

The last time we saw the Klingons on Enterprise, the race was being inoculated against the augment virus, which had the results of Klingon head ridges dissolving. The Klingon doctor played by John Schuck speculated that he believed reconstructive surgery was soon to become the big new trend in the Empire.

This makes sense as why would the Klingons choose to remain looking like dishonorable weakling humans if they had an option otherwise?

Flash forward 100 years and you see the Klingons of Discovery, who have, as a society, taken this practice to an extreme. That's why the Klingons of the Discovery era looks so different. It's elective body art. Like tattoos and piercings for humans.

After the virus rears it's ugly head again sometime before Errand of Mercy, which undoes all of the surgical alterations, the trend of radical body art is abandoned for one of more traditional Klingon appearances.

 

[XCV330]

Genesis Device was Sec-31 backed, whether the Marcuses knew it or not (and David certainly suspected something). It's immediate use prevented it from being the first strike weapon they wanted.

Conversely, the Genesis Wave was better understood after the Reliant incident, and relatively easy defences were modeled and adopted galaxy-wide through spying and technology diffusion. What would/should have been a 20th century arms race to stockpile Genesis torpedos never occured as they were useless for terraforming and pointless as a difficult-to-manufacture weapon.
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[Mr. Laser Beam]

That's not head canon. That's just canon!

No, actually, it isn't.

There is nothing onscreen which says that Saavik is half Romulan. Therefore, she is not.

 

[Kor]

^ Well it is stated on screen in a deleted scene. I wish they had put that back in the Director's Edition.

My head canon includes John Byrne's TOS-era comics which almost completely ignore the later series as well as the movies. I don't include "New Visions" simply because I haven't read much of those.

Kor

 

[Greg Cox]

When I'm in Seattle, I usually visit the Pacific Science Center. And when I pass the lab-coated animatronic "barker bug" at the entrance to their insect zoo, I invariably say, "Look! It's David Hedison!" (This in spite of the fact that I've never actually seen either version of The Fly, nor read the original short story. And you still don't talk about Fight Club.)

Growing up in Seattle, I loved the Science Center. Haven't been there since I was a kid.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I was in Seattle last summer but the science center was still closed!

I think there was a sign that said WHY they were closed but I can't remember what it said. I suppose it could have had something to do with the pandemic, although that'd be unlikely after all this time, wouldn't it?

Unless it was a staffing shortage. I can buy that.

Still pissed me off, though.

 

[fireproof78]

Growing up in Seattle, I loved the Science Center. Haven't been there since I was a kid.

Last time I went it hadn't felt a whole lot different though that was 10 years ago now.

I was in Seattle last summer but the science center was still closed!

I think there was a sign that said WHY they were closed but I can't remember what it said. I suppose it could have had something to do with the pandemic, although that'd be unlikely after all this time, wouldn't it?

Unless it was a staffing shortage. I can buy that.

Still pissed me off, though.

Oh, sad!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Speaking of Seattle, I have two personal bits of headcanon about it:

- I accept Ishmael's explanation that Amanda Grayson is from there, and

- Sometime between now and Trek's time, the Mariners have won at least ONE World Series!

Oh, and just in case y'all were wondering, it's ALSO in my personal headcanon that major league baseball STILL exists, it's STILL played, and it was NEVER gotten rid of.

Edit: I just remembered, it's NOT just my personal canon. It's been confirmed, onscreen. LD and PIC have both mentioned baseball as still being played. So there.

 

[Oddish]

Growing up in Seattle, I loved the Science Center. Haven't been there since I was a kid.

I did a field trip or two there as a substitute driver... still pretty cool. Unfortunately, as a regular driver (WAY better than being a sub, but usually no field trips), I don't get to go anymore.

Edit: I just remembered, it's NOT just my personal canon. It's been confirmed, onscreen. LD and PIC have both mentioned baseball as still being played. So there.

Maybe that's why Sisko stayed in a timeless state... he can watch all the games that way!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I was in Seattle last summer but the science center was still closed!

According to their web site, they are currently open Wednesdays through Sundays.